Dams And Resources
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The Environmental Impacts of Large Dams
Land and water are ecologically linked in a natural system called a watershed. From the smallest
droplet to the mightiest river, water works to shape the land, taking with it sediment and dissolved materials
that drain to watercourses and, in most cases, eve ....
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.... than 400,000 square kilometers--an area larger than Zimbabwe, and 13 times the size of
Lesotho. Volta Reservoir behind Ghana's Akasombo Dam, flooded 4% of that nation's land area. In the
United States, whose 5,500 large dams make it the second most dammed country in the world, we have
stopped building large dams, and are now spending great amounts of money trying to fix the problems
created by existing dams.
Although the impacts of large dams have been well documented for some time ....
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